Just wondered if anyone has tried Meiji Sampler. Looks kind of fun…
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It’s worth trying, nice just focusing on keyboard and not having to switch to a mouse. I’ve got it installed on a raspberry pi5 and it seems to work very well.
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Nice look and feel, I must say, particularly if you’re a mouse-hating touch typist like me.
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Yes I am very intrigued by the keyboard only approach unfortunately I ran into a bug where I am only able to delete chops # 1, 4, 5. That make Meiji right now unusable for me 
anyone else experiencing this kind of behaviour? I am on a m2 MacBook Air running Mac OS 15.5
But other than that I think it has the potential to become for my Mac what Koala is to my IPad…
did you report the bug?
I can’t find a way to proceed step 3 of the tutorial. The UI isn’t obvious, and I simply can’t figure out how to actually create a loop. The UI needs work because it always shows you many letters to type for various actions, but the actions aren’t relevant or choosable in the context, making the UI virutally impossible to navigate.
For example, I figured out how to record, but not how to stop the recording. Hitting escape always aborts the take rather than backing up a level, which is what I mean by a non-obvious UI. Once in the recording interface, I was never able to get back to the mixer. I did email the dev. It looks like he’s only delivered a proof-of-concept alpha version. That would be fine–it looks very promising–but from the web site, he seems to think he’s delivered something with basic usability, so either I’m missing obvious things, or he’s really misjudged his own software’s capabilities.
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IIRC if you press ‘,’ you can access setup and reset tutorial.
He seems responsive to feedback, I asked for raspberry pi support which he raised priority for. Also fixed an audio device issue I raised.
There’s a Meiji sampler Reddit which he is monitoring.
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Right, those are the settings, which he documents. But how do you get past step 3 of the tutorial?
Just a heads up, it requires a login to use. It’s a personal thing but not something I want in a terminal app. Also there is no uninstall script provided on their website so you will need to do it manually. These are the files it installed on my Mac.
/Users/your-username/.local/bin/meiji-sampler
/Users/your-username/.config/meiji-sampler
/Users/your-username/Library/Application Support/meiji-sampler
/Users/your-username/Library/Application Support/Meiji Sampler
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Yes I did and even got a response pretty quickly.
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cool beans, this is one to watch
I think you need to press enter to finish recording.
When you pressed enter, did the tutorial proceed to its step 4 (and then beyond)?
Do you have a screenshot of where you are stuck (or the tutorial text) just to make sure I’m looking at the same thing?
I’m able to complete the whole tutorial.
I’m on Macos. From this point, I find no keyboard combination or combination of actions that will advance the tutorial:
Hey folks! Meiji here, creator of Meiji Sampler 
Super thrilled to see this thread and honestly brings me huge joy to see a community form around this humble project. This is a very special project so seeing everyone come together to work through kinks and suggest improvements means a lot.
I will start monitoring this thread and any others that appear, and feel free to tag me with specific bugs/feature requests/suggestions/overall feedback.
You’re also welcome to email me directly (contact info on the homepage), and we also have a /r/MeijiSampler subreddit happening. Folks reply in the YouTube comments too, so any of these options work.
If you’re digging it, feel free to spread the word, or post a video with your creations (the Bounce > MP4 Visualizer should hopefully make exporting visuals easy). Stoked to see what you make!
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Thanks for helping report the “Step 3 of the Tutorial” issue. I haven’t been able to reproduce it myself yet, although I believe you and will keep hunting it down. I’ll keep you posted if I make any progress (thanks for the email thread).
When recording, you can hit [ESC] to retry the take, or [ENTER] to stop & accept the recording. If you’re recording the 1st loop (which sets the master tempo, like a Boss RC‑505 or Boss RC‑300) then you’ll want to hit [ENTER] at the right time to set the end point. If you feel hitting [ESC] is more intuitive, I can make this configurable, or have it prompt the user to Accept or Redo (rather than assuming Redo on [ESC]), which is reasonable (just adds an extra step).
The intent is, yes, to have delivered basic usability which is easy to learn yet powerful with mastery (especially as it evolves). So keep the feedback coming and we’ll improve it together 
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That’s a fair point, I get it. I have some exciting visions for how to bring the community into the app in a BBS-inspired way, but in the meantime I hear ya.
I will add some documentation around this, so it’s clear (and also consolidate those paths which are redundant, without breaking things).
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Hi, welcome. Good to see you here!
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